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Boy faces new charges over attack on woman

The accused was embraced by his mother at Dublin children’s court yesterdayROLLINGNEWS.IE

Gardaí expect to bring more charges against a 15-year-old Dublin schoolboy accused of a knife attack on a woman he is said to have met on social media.

The boy, who cannot be named because he is a minor, was refused bail last week after a garda said that he feared the boy would be “likely to commit murder”. Yesterday he faced his second hearing, before Judge Bernadette Owens at Dublin children’s court.

He is charged with assault causing harm to the woman and production of a knife at the baths in Queens Road, Dún Laoghaire, on December 23. He has not yet indicated how he will plead.

The woman, who is 25 and of Malaysian descent, was found near the baths at 3.20pm. She…